grub wasnt able to install the boot loader, ...

[R.F.Wehringer]

... neither in /dev/sda1 nor in /dev/sda, on a HDD with GPT prepared with Gparted from the same LiveCD ( 32bit-Ubuntu11.10 DVD from c't kompakt 01/12 magazine ) during installation of Ubuntu from LiveCD.
Hardware is a FSC v5535 laptop with a 160GB HDD from Samsung.

MfG, MEX

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: ubiquity 2.8.7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
CasperVersion: 1.287
Date: Mon Dec 19 13:09:48 2011
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de_AT.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=de_AT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

Exception during installation:
Dec 19 13:09:29 ubuntu ubiquity: Error in function start
Dec 19 13:09:29 ubuntu plugininstall.py: Traceback (most recent call last):
Dec 19 13:09:29 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/ubiquity/ubiquity/install_misc.py", line 256, in start
Dec 19 13:09:29 ubuntu plugininstall.py: self.db.progress('START', 0, 100, self.title)
Dec 19 13:09:29 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/debconf.py", line 60, in <lambda>
Dec 19 13:09:29 ubuntu plugininstall.py: lambda *args, **kw: self.command(command, *args, **kw))
Dec 19 13:09:29 ubuntu plugininstall.py: File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/debconf.py", line 81, in command
Dec 19 13:09:29 ubuntu plugininstall.py: status = int(status)
Dec 19 13:09:29 ubuntu plugininstall.py: ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''
Dec 19 13:09:29 ubuntu plugininstall.py:

[dino99 (9d9)]

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